Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Indiana

"So many times, I think of myself as a strong and independent person, filled with confidence and pride. And sometimes I forget that? It's all because of you, Mom." - Judith Hintz TanakaThis book brings together some of the best contemporary poetry and writings about a mother and her importance in our lives, in a collection destined to be treasured by mothers everywhere for many years to come.This book is more than a tribute to a mother. It is also an eloquent expression of our appreciation for all that she has done since the day we were born. It conveys our thanks for the lifetime she has invested in raising us to be the people we are today. It holds a promise that we will never forget all she has taught us, shared with us, and sacrificed for us -- instead, we will value her legacy forever and strive to hand it down to future generations. Most of all, this book is a gift of love for the one woman to who we owe everything... Mom."I can never thank you enough for all that you have taught me, and done for me. I can never repay you. All I can do is tell you that I love you with all my heart, that I'm grateful for you, and that I cherish you and the closeness we share." - Deborah A. Brideau

I Love You, Mom

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New York

A Bedside Poker Companion

More than 50 million Americans play poker. But poker is much more than a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated by a multitude of colorful characters -- professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers.

From the rich field of all the writers who have ever loved the game, editor John Stravinsky has gathered thirty-nine best-of-breed short stories, essays, excerpts from novels, and poems: Mark Twain, John Updike, James Thurber, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, and Billy Collins are among the winning hand of renowned writers in this collection who have mined their personal experiences at the poker table.

Entertaining, enlightening, and essential, Read 'Em and Weep is a stacked deck of pure poker-reading pleasure.

Read 'Em and Weep

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

"In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images for the poetry. There's an excellent biographical essay, and at the bottom of each page, Schmidt provides a brief note on some of the possible ways to read the lines....These nature poems show that poetry holds feelings and ideas that everyone can understand."--Booklist. "...superb; the poems introduced in a tone that is informative but not pedantic."--PW. "...satisfies in every way."--SLJ. "Include[s] both well-known favorites and those less often read or quoted. 'Mending Wall,' 'Birches,' 'The Road Not Taken' are essential Frost and all are here."--Quill & Quire. ". . . thoughtfully compiled and brilliantly illustrated."--Buzz Weekly. 48 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.


Robert Frost

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Louisiana

Poems

I've learned that not allpoetry lends itself to music -- some thoughts needto be sung only against the silence. There are softer and less tangible part[s] of our selves that are so essential to peace, to openheartedness, to unfolding the vision and the spiritual realm of our lives, to exposing our souls. - Jewel, From the Preface Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect. In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce. And then there are the images of the road, the people, the bars, the planes, places exotic and mundane, loneliness and friendship. Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.

A Night Without Armor

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Illinois

In the early twentieth century, a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Dragonwings (literature connections edition)

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 #poetry #shakespeare #fiction #sonnets #lovepoems #classic #poems #hardcover

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Michigan

Among the few facts known about William Shakespeare's life: he was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Tradition assigns his birth to April 23; he died fifty-two years later on the same day. At eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior. Their daughter Susanna was born six months later, followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. The next seven years of his life are unaccounted for, but by 1592 he was well known in the London theatre world. From 1589 to 1613 he wrote the thirty-six plays (and cowrote two others) on which his fame chiefly rests, though his place in the top rank of English writers would have been secured just by his excellence as a poet. He bought one of the finest houses in Stratford in 1597 and lived there from 1610. He is buried outside Holy Trinity Church.

The Sonnets and Other Love Poems

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Georgia

Inspired by Roget's explanation of the optical illusion that causes spinning wheels to appear to run backward, a lyrical collection by the award-winning poet explores the human pursuit to articulate the world and the perception that words hold greater meaning than their definitions.

Roget's Illusion

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Delaware

Poems of Love

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing to literati and laymen alike. Surrounded by mystery, these poems of devotion and jealousy, of a young courtier and a Dark Lady, have been the subject of endless speculation. They are highly mystical and at the same time highly honest; as W. H. Auden wrote, "...what is astonishing about the sonnets, especially when one remembers the age in which they were written, is the impression they make of naked autobiographical confession."

Because they are witty, passionate, personal, and often ever bawdy, The Sonnets stand as one of the greatest poetic tributes ever written to a beloved. Elegantly presented in deluxe edition, these 154 beautiful poems are the perfect gift for any man or woman who has ever been in love.

The Sonnets

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Signed Copy

New-fashioned poems in old-fashioned forms. Not for the faint of heart.

West of House - Signed Copy

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Tennessee

A Joyful Bouquet

Springtime is garden planting time. This little book contains light-hearted poems about the earth and the plants. It also includes watercolour illustrations.

Poems for Gardeners

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Pennsylvania

Thanks for Being a Mom; Woman of God -25 Devotions; Poems for Christmas

Love you Mom Bundle

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

American readers have been fascinated, since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen-syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the spirit of Zen Buddhism, the haiku has served as an example of the power of direct observation to the first generation of American modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and also as an example of spontaneity and Zen alertness to the new poets of the 1950's. This definite collection brings together in fresh translations by an American poet the essential poems of the three greatest masters: Matsuo Basho in the seventeenth century; Yosa Buson in the eighteenth century; and Kobayashi Issa in the early nineteenth century. Robert Haas has written a lively and informed introduction, provided brief examples by each poet of their work in the halibun, or poetic prose form, and included informal notes to the poems. This is a useful and inspiring addition to The Essential Poets series.

Essential Haiku Volume 20

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A Book of Hours

Hearkening back to the medieval devotional books of hours used for daily prayer, poet Elizabeth Bodien takes notice of ordinary moments throughout the day, making them into opportunities for extraordinary attention and reverence.

Oblique Music

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Massachusetts

A collection of poems which find their basis in that strangest of human emotions: love.

Poems That Touch the Heart

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Oprah's Book Club Novel

The great scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story -- and the song -- of America itself.

The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois

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Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the world's finest military forces between 73and 71 BC, bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind.



Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal, The Spartacus Road is a book like none other--at once a journalist's notebook, a reflection on life's fragility, including the author's own fight against cancer; and a classicist's celebration. As he travels along the Spartacus Road and into the classical Italian landscape, Stothard breathes new life into a singular war in antiquity, recounting one of the greatest stories of the ages.

The Poets Laureate Anthology

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Poems and Drawings

In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of one of her poetry collections, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, Walker turned an act of repetition into an act of inspiration. For each autograph became something more than a name: a thoughtful reflection, an impromptu sketch, a heartfelt poem. The result is this spontaneous burst of the unexpected. A Poem Traveled Down My Arm is a lovely collection of insights and drawings—by turns charming and humorous, provocative and profound—that represent the wisdom of one of today’s most beloved writers. The essence of Walker’s independent spirit emanates from words and images that are simple but deep in meaning. An empowering approach to life...the inspiration to live completely in the moment...the chance to nurture one’s creativity and peace of mind—all these beautiful elements are evoked by this unusual and original book.

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

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the word on the street is far from a dry read. It brings the word of God to life for those who have never read any version of the Bible before and provides fresh insight for those who have read it a thousand times. --Mike Pilavachi, Soul Survivor Here is Rob Lacy communicating the truth of God to a world that desperately needs to hear, but finds it so hard to understand. --Rob Parsons, Care for the Family Rob Lacey is a man of many languages. He has mastered the language of the stage and is fluent in the language of the street. But most of all, he speaks the language of the heart. --Gerard Kelly, Cafe.net The Bible with street creed: Lacey has a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude to the Bible and a wry sense of humour. --Publishing News Very different It makes the Bible as easy to read as a tabloid newspaper. It's great fun if you know the Bible fairly well. But it's also, of course, aimed at people who've never ever opened it. And maybe we do underestimate just how difficult that is if you don't know where to start. I could read it all morning, actually as never before in this 75-minute performance based on the award-winning book the word on the street. It's the bible as performance art, inspired by the critically acclaimed live show featuring actor Rob Lacey and musicians Bill and Rachel Taylor-Belaes. Rob helped me discover angry and sad voices in passages of the Bible that had left me indifferent, and he made me laugh at other passages so familiar that I had never seen the healthy irreverence, humor and irony they expressed. --Dr. David Trobisch, Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Bangor Theological Seminary For those who've never read the Bible, and for those who've read it too much. Rob Lacey's dangerously real retelling of Scripture vividly demonstrates that the Bible is packed full of stories/poems/images that resonate with the big issues of today. This fresh paraphrase with running commentary brings the text alive: Bible stories are retold as mini-blockbusters; psalms as song lyrics; epistles as emails; Revelation as a virtual reality. language--gritty, earthy, witty. Enough of starting at Genesis with good intentions but getting lost in Leviticus. Lacey succeeds in revitalizing a classic work by focusing on the big picture: fast-forwards through the slow-moving bits with pace, passion and energy to make the Bible a page-turner again. What's more, Lacey's award-winning* tour de force was created during a remarkable personal journey through terminal cancer: the stuff the Bible stories are made of. This life-experience injects Lacey's take on Scripture with authenticity and authority--resonating with Bible characters who also wrestled with the big questions. Purist alert: This is not THE Bible (capital B) ...but it might just get you reaching for one. *Book of the year (2004), Christian Booksellers Convention Ltd. (UK)

The Word on the Street

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Minnesota

From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings--a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old.

A Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again.

Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.

Come on up to the attic of Shel Silverstein and let the light bring you home.

And don't miss The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, also available as ebooks!

 

A Light in the Attic

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Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry

From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope

Raquel Salas Rivera's star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volcán daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico.

Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable ("won't you be sorry? / won't you wish you had a boss? / won't you get restless / with all that freedom?").

These poems tap unflinchingly into the explosive energy of the island, transforming it into protest, into spirit, into art.

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano

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Leaves From A Child's Garden Of Verses is a volume to be cherished for a lifetime. Donna Green's gorgeous, full-color paintings perfectly complement Robert Lewis Stevenson's Victorian verses.

Leaves from a Child's Garden of Verses

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#hardcover #fiction #Christmas #Christian #historical #poems #shortstories Library book from small church library

This anthology points readers to the real meaning of Christmas. The book contains a varied selection of extracts, stories and poetry, suitable for the family to read together at Christmas and for classroom use. It is designed to show both the fun and the real meaning of Christmas.

Star of Wonder

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California

A Garden of Poems about Our Planet

An excellent collection of poetry about nature and the environment that includes many by contemporary poets but also old favorites like "Daffodils."

The Earth Is Painted Green

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New Jersey

A Billy Sook

From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit.

Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms--words or phrases with letters or syllables swapped: bunny rabbit becomes Runny Babbit.

Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.

So if you say, "Let's bead a rook

That's billy as can se,"

You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,

Just like mim and he.

And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book from Shel Silverstein!

Gary Morris (Editor)

I Love You, Mom

John Stravinsky

Read 'Em and Weep

Robert Frost; Gary D. Schmidt (Editor); Henri Sorensen (Illustrator)

Robert Frost

Jewel

A Night Without Armor

McDougal-Littell Publishing Staff (Prepared for Publication by)

Dragonwings (literature connections edition)

William Shakespeare

The Sonnets and Other Love Poems

Linda Bierds

Roget's Illusion

William Shakespeare

The Sonnets

Patrick Kennedy

West of House - Signed Copy

Ideals Publications Inc. Staff (Contribution by)

Poems for Gardeners

Multiple

Love you Mom Bundle

Hass

Essential Haiku Volume 20

Elizabeth Bodien

Oblique Music

A. L. Alexander

Poems That Touch the Heart

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois

Elizabeth Hun Schmidt

The Poets Laureate Anthology

Alice Walker

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

Rob Lacey

The Word on the Street

Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)

A Light in the Attic

Raquel Salas Rivera

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano

Robert Louis Stevenson; Donna Green (Illustrator)

Leaves from a Child's Garden of Verses

Bob Hartman; Tim Jonke (Illustrator)

Star of Wonder

Barbara Brenner; S. D. Schindler (Illustrator)

The Earth Is Painted Green

Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)

Runny Babbit